Strengthening Words
I’ve gathered these memes together to challenge, rebuke and bless each of us. After all, I know I need to pray more—how about you?
History belongs to the intercessors. (Walter Wink)
God shapes the world by prayer. The more praying there is in the world, the better the world will be, the mightier the forces against evil. (Mother Theresa)
If we believed this, we would pray all the time, wouldn’t we?
Shorter prayers work too. (M.H. Puccini)
Sometimes an arrow prayer is all you have time for. But arrow prayers count too.
The first requirement of prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence. (Mother Theresa)
Our prayers can go where we cannot. There are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray. (Brother Andrew)
In 1955, God called Brother Andrew to smuggle Bibles and encouragement to distressed churches behind the Iron Curtain, later ministering in closed Muslim countries too. He named his organization Open Doors and said,
I literally believe that every door is open to go in and proclaim Christ, as long as you are willing to go and are not worried about coming back.”
If caught, Christians smuggling help to persecuted Christians in closed countries risk Imprisonment, torture and death. They trust in God’s protection, knowing that they still might be martyred. But that possibility doesn’t stop them.
Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken. Leonard Ravenhill
What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct? (Jim Cymbala)
Ouch.
Prayer is the portal that brings the power of Heaven down to earth. It is Kryptonite to the enemy and to all his ploys against you. (Priscilla Shirer)
Sadly, Kryptonite does not exist. But if it did, I imagine it would look like this green, crystalized rock..
My thanks to writer Jerry Siegel and artist Joe Shuster, who created Superman in 1933. while both were students at Glenville High School.
These images were downloaded from Pixabay.com.
